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Relations Office as a Personnel Specialist, a career path which he followed until his retirement in 1997.
Brother Reid was to serve the Department of Defense's Commissary Agency as Chief of Personnel
Operations for personnel matters in Washington, Idaho, and Montana. He received the Meritorious
Civilian Service Award from the Department of Defense at his retirement.

Our Most Worshipful Brother’s Masonic career began in 1988 as the result of his daughter's activities in
the International Order of Rainbow for Girls. Brother Reid's close friend from his church, Worshipful
Brother Chuck Compton, had served as Jessie's Rainbow Dad during her first term as Worthy Advisor.
Two years later several Brethren who worked closely with the Assembly, suggested to Brother Reid that
being a member of the Fraternity would facilitate his involvement with Rainbow. He petitioned Steadfast
Lodge No. 216, and was initiated, passed, and raised in the early and late spring of 1988. He served as
Master of Steadfast for the first time in 1992-93; as Lodge Secretary from 1993 to 1996, and again as
Master in 1998-99. In addition to his many honorary memberships, he also enjoys full membership in Port
Orchard Lodge No. 98, and Walter F. Meier Lodge of Research No. 281, where he served as editor of the
Lodge's transactions.

Most Worshipful Brother Milt Benson gave Jimmy his first Grand Lodge appointment as Grand Historian.
He also served Most Worshipful Brother George Jurgich as Grand Orator, and Most Worshipfil Brother
Tom Ehlers and Most Worshipful Brother Carl Smith as Chairman of the Library and Museum Foundation
Committee. He served as a Trustee to the Masonic Retirement Center continuously from 1997 through his
term as Grand Master. Jimmy is also associated with the Bremerton Valley of the Scottish Rite, having
been coroneted 33rd Degree, Inspector General Honorary, in October 1991. He is a member of the
Bremerton York Rite Bodies; the Royal Order of Scotland; Nile Shrine Temple; Tacobat Grotto of
Tacoma; the Masonic Societas Rosicruciana in Civitatibus Foederatis; the Scottish Rite Research Society;
the Fort Lewis Chapter of the National Sojourners; the Meriwether Lewis Camp, Heroes of '76; the Knight
Masons; and Reliance Chapter No. 70, OES. Grand Master Reid is the recipient of the Grand Cross of
Color from the International Order of Rainbow for Girls, and the DeMolay Legion of Honor. Most
Worshipful Brother Reid is a member of the Masonic Renewal Committee of the Conference of Grand
Masters of North America. In 2002-2003 he served as Vice Chairman of the Conference of Grand Masters.
He also served on the Imperial Shrine /Masonic Liaison Committee for the Imperial Council of the Nobles
of the Mystic Shrine for North America. Following his tenure as Grand Master her joined the leadership
of Washington DeMolay as Executive Officer.

Brother Jimmy is a strong advocate of long-range planning as a necessary element of the Fraternity's
success in the next several decades. Beginning in the spring of 2000, as Junior Grand Warden, he was
instrumental in developing the strategic plan for the jurisdiction that had begun with Most Worshipful
Brother Bill R. Wood and then developed by Grand Masters Mecartea and Van Zee. Brother Jimmy
attributes this process to the adoption of the Revised Washington Masonic Code, an initiative that surfaced
in the strategic planning process. Brother Jimmy will be remembered for his sense of Masonic history,
particularly that of this Grand Jurisdiction, his talent as an orator, and for being the first Grand Master to
appoint a Grand Piper, in honor of his Scottish heritage. Perhaps the most important quality that elevates
effective leadership is its grasp of the power of vision, a sense that without a vision we may have a future,
but it will not be of our own design. Most Worshipful Brother Reid encouraged us to share his vision and
to make it come alive. We are indebted to his stewardship.

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